Messi, Xavi, Iniesta ... Barcelona

Many of you will be wondering what sort of title that is.? Continue reading and you'll know. Messi, Xavi, Iniesta are hailed as the best football players around the world. Ok there is Ronaldo, Kaka, the best of them all Gareth Bale (really..?) also. But when you talk about Barcelona you start hearing a lot of compliments about them. The best team in the world, The best team in the history of football, and what not.. They certainly are the best team at the moment. All the critics compare Arsenal to Barcelona. We are following a similar footballing philosophy to the best team in the world and according to pundits we are way behind them. Everyone reading this will say we know this.. what is new in your blog.? Well friends whatever I'm going to write is well known to all of you. Its just that you have forgotten it or you are too involved in something really important (criticizing, trying to scout players for arsenal for free , finding solutions for arsenal's problem, trying to calm down other fans). Getting back to my point now.

Since Arsene Wenger came to Arsenal we have had so many good moments to cherish about. I think we began to become a very famous club around the world because of him and his footballing principles. We played scintillating football and won trophies raising the bar for every other team and more than that for ourselves and to our fans. And hence the criticism, the hatred among pundits , fans for our trophy drought. I can't argue with everyone about it. Some of them are true about some of their comments. My point is that we should remain a little more patient with our team. And here is the reason why we should. Barcelona also endured a 6 year trophy drought recently.

Barcelona won the La Liga title for the 1998-1999 season and then didn't win anything until 2005.During that six year trophy-less run they were developing their own young talents Messi Xavi, Iniesta Now look at them..., they are talk of the whole world.!

Arsenal has been doing the same thing. I'm not saying we'll be winning 6 trophies next season, but i just found it interesting that nobody seems to mention this little bit of information. We have lot of talent in comparison to Messi, Xavi, Iniesta.. to name a few Cesc Fabregas, RvP, Samir Nasri , Theo Walcott , Jack Wilshere , Aaron Ramsey (few more) . oh wait..!! we have twice the number of good upcoming players in comparison to Barcelona during their drought. I agree that they signed Ronaldinho who changed their fortunes. He was signed in 2003 and barcelona came back to winning ways in 2005. Well we have lot of players with huge potential and we saw a few coming up with their potential this season Nasri, Walcott, Jack , so why not be optimistic about our future .? I'm sure we will see some changes at Arsenal this summer. Rio dinho ( Rio Miyaichi ) has been a huge success at Feyenoord should be with us next season. Poor lad is already under huge expectation levels, but i believe he will do well if not awesome in his first season at Arsenal . So people be a little more patient with our team.

Now to Arsene Wenger. Lots of people want Mr. Arsene Wenger out. But have you given a thought about how much this man has given to the team. I mean look at him he has started to look like a Zombie figure to me ( No Offence) . No manager in the world will take all this stress for a team when he is one of the most demanded managers around Europe. He could've very well have signed a lot of big players bring success for a short while along with millions of debt after the new stadium, after the Invincibles and left Arsenal. But he decided to stay , put his own reputation on the line for the good of Arsenal. He is the best thing that has happened to Arsenal. One of his quotes "A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful." Its the fans time to tell the team how good they are, how capable they are of becoming the best of the best and not to discourage them.

For Cesc Fabregas doubters i have two things to tell. Watch the match against spurs if u doubt his passion for the club and about his performance i would like the stats to do the talking..

xavi since 04 – goals 49, assists 65, total apps 347

cesc since 04 – goals 52 , assists 88, total apps 310

Finally my message to Arsenal fans. You have a different view, i have a different view but we all have a thing in common. We are all die-hard Arsenal supporters and Arsenal is a big part of our lives now. We should be a little more patient with our Favourite team in the whole wide world.! We should stop all the criticizing, debates, arguments and show how good Arsenal supporters really are and support the team like never before. Arsenalforever..

HOLD MY HAND ..!

With Arsenal all the football supporters are treated with a bit of history. We are history makers. With the remarkable start to his Arsenal career Mr.Arsene Wenger raised the bar for other teams. We won Doubles, we were The Invicibles. Well everyone knows this. But today I'm talking about our history in the recent past. For the last few seasons our Arsenal team has performed in certain pattern. We start the season on a very strong note. We even top the league or are around the second place in November , December but after February we seem to lose our footing drastically and go on a run of few goal-less games, drawing games which we normally would win. This is a history which keeps repeating year after year which is really annoying. And when we look to do a little better we are stopped by the Injury gods and consistent refereeing. By consistent refereeing i meant the repeated poor performance of the referee's against us. This history was yet again repeated this season and we have not performed well after February. The game against Liverpool had every bit of history in it. we were heading for a goal-less draw at home but we scored a penalty and then the referee decided that to deny us another victory as they have done for a lot of times this season.

More than the 2 points dropped I am worried about the behaviour of Arsenal fans. I am not able to differentiate between the (brainless) football pundits who keep writing us off and calling for the end of Arsene's era at Arsenal and the complaining Arsenal fans. The fans alike football pundits tell we are not good enough, we lack this , we lack that ,we need to buy him, we need to send him out, we need to send Arsene packing ..Too many complains..Do you lot mean we are not good enough to win the title..(which i think is a yes) I have one question for you. Why do you think that Arsenal will win the trophy when you yourself have written them off before the start of the season .?? They have already surpassed your expectation level by being at a position where they currently are.

Arsenal have silenced their critics time and again. And this time we have to shut their mouths in such a way that they are not able to open it again. This season is not over. We have 6 games left. We are capable of winning each one of them. As for Manchester United who are at the top of the table with a 6 point cushion they have to play Chelsea , Arsenal were we can expect them to earn 0 points . Its possible. Apart from those games they play Newcastle, Everton, Blackburn and Blackpool. On a bad day they can draw any of the first three games. And that's the reason I refuse to give up on our season just yet. This season can go down to the last game as well. So gooners just don't write off your favourite team this early.

And now coming back to the ever complaining fans. I know that many wouldn't read this blog but i would still like to make a point to the fans who insult our own players/manager. If we did not have Fabregas we wouldn't be playing in our 11th consecutive champions league knock out stage. He is our heart beat. Watch a few matches were fabregas is not playing and the ones in which he is playing you will know what he brings for our team. And the Wenger haters ... If Mr.Arsene Wenger had not come to Arsenal we wouldn't have had The Invincibles, about which we proudly boast to the supporters of other teams & humiliate spurs.. without him we wouldn't be sitting in a fanastic stadium with guaranteed champions league football unlike our minor fellow rivals "spurs".

I know that being trophyless for last 6 seasons is a big problem for a club of Arsenal's stature. It is not that we have struggled to challenge for a trophy. We have come close, a lot of times Champions league final 2006 , League cup runners up 2007 , Third in the league in 2007-08 why I'm mentioning this is because we were rocking the league up untill the Eduardo injury. This year we lost in the League cup finals again. Our season looks done and dusted but I wouldn't stop believing that we can turn it around. Not long ago we were not given a chance to qualify to the semi-finals in the champions league when we had to face Barcelona. Our own fans had little hope. But you all will never forget that amazing night when we beat them 2-1. All of a sudden we had a hope of doing what seemed Impossible at the start. Eventually we failed but my friends don't forget how close we were to our goal and how we were denied of it.

Its all about believing . Believing in the players, in the team, believing that it is possible. I have a point for the fans who tell look at Manchester United.. They never seem to falter like us. Had they stopped believing for their Champions league finals match against Bayern Munich they wouldn't have scored in the 91st and 93rd minute and the rest as they say is history. Our season is now at such a stage. So HOLD MY HAND and your fellow gooners and start backing the team untill the final hurdle. A single finger stands no chance against a group of fingers forming a fist. Stand up and make yourself counted.!